Filed under: Concept Cars, Paris Motor Show, Crossovers/CUVs, BMW
Click above for gallery of the BMW Concept X1
If the BMW X3 isn’t ugly or space-inefficient enough for you, here’s the Concept X1, which is a lightly veiled version of the production soft ute you’ll see in BMW dealers shortly. Yeech. We can’t fathom how it’s going… »
The least exciting new Bimmer in living memory, the BMW X1, is here. And here it is. Still reading? Nope, didn’t think so. It’s some sort of small cross over vehicle that we bet BMW will assign a whole bunch of acronyms to in a supposed effort to make it drive well, but really it’ll… »
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, GM, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Green Daily, Automotive X-Prize
Click above for high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Volt
The Progressive Auto X Prize has gotten over 100 teams that have expressed an interest in competing in next year’s competition. While a lot of these teams are small groups with big dreams, the X Prize foundation… »
Filed under: Gadgets, Tech, Celebrities, Humor
“Left at the next exit you will turn,” or so we imagine none other than Jedi Master Yoda telling us as we attempt to pilot our land speeders toward some unknown destination. You can now download Yoda as the voice of your TomTom or Garmin GPS unit courtesy of a… »
Filed under: Videos, Supercars, Chevrolet
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The Corvette ZR1 is the fastest, most ridiculously cool production Corvette ever produced. After taking the ZR1 for several hot laps of the Lutzring in Milford, we’d go as far as to say it’s one of the fastest vehicles we’ve ever driven. Journalists aren’t… »
Filed under: Legislation and Policy, China
During and before this summer’s Olympic games, a significant amount of attention was given to the air quality that the world’s top athletes would be breathing in Beijing. As was widely reported, the city’s air was highly contaminated due to an abundance of people, manufacturing plants and automobiles. As you… »
Filed under: Spy Photos, Sedans/Saloons, Sports/GTs, Porsche
Click above for gallery of reader-submitted Panamera spy shots
We know when it happened, we just don’t know why it happened. Autoblog reader Joshua Silverman sent in some cellphone pictures of a Panamera he drove by in Denver, Colorado. And all of a sudden — like the Grinch’s heart growing… »
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Contests, Government/Legal, Green, Chevrolet, GM
Click above to view high-res gallery of the 2011 Chevy Volt
Now that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has an agreement with General Motors regarding how to measure the fuel mileage of the 2011 Chevy Volt, our attention turns to the EPA, which now has to decide… »
Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, USA
Although they have yet to show off a prototype of their electrical energy storage unit (EESU) to a very curious public, the mysterious EEStor company has inked yet another deal. This time the future beneficiary of the super-duper capacitor is the Light Electric Vehicles Company (LightEVs) headed… »
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Chrysler, LLC., Ford
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Engineer Bob Kearns had been granted a patent for a design of intermittent windshield wipers in 1967, two years before Ford introduced them in production. Unfortunately for Kearns, Ford had “developed” its own system rather than licensing Kearns’ design. Needless to say, litigation ensued and it took… »